CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Just out of curiosity, what books are people reading right now?

At the moment, I'm finishing up Donald Grave's book "Guns Across the River: The Battle of the Windmill, 1838". Which is a chronicle of the aforementioned battle which took place in Prescott, Ontario. It was the largest and bloodiest of the border raids launched into Upper and Lower Canada from the US during the incursions of 1837-1840.

When I'm finished that, I'll be reading the new Terry Brooks novel "Jarka Ruus"

Although I borrowed the book some time ago, I just seriously started reading Lawhead's Merlin.

I am currently reading "The Present Future" by Reggie McNeal.

I tend to read a lot of books at one time. I read the Bible every day. That's the first on my list.

Then, I'm reading Miracle at St. Anna's a book by James McBride, one of my favorite writers. It's about an African-American unit fighting in Italy during World War II. One of the largest men is left behind and befriends a young Italian boy who is mute. It's a very sweet story, but I'm only halfway through it. I also am working on Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell and almost done. It's a very graphic work and I'm not used to her writing this way and I've kind of stopped reading it because she's gone a little overboard this time. Although, she is probably one of the greatest writers of our time, personally I'm just finding it hard to digest her words. So, I keep going back to my kind James McBride and his sweet story. I was also supposed to be finishing up John Adams by David McCollugh, but John is in France and he's getting kind of boring too. I'll finish it one day.

I've not been reading much lately... been spending too much of my time online! Gah!

I started reading Tolkien's "The Silmarillion".

The other evening, I read a short story from "The Year's Best Sci-Fi 7" an anthology of science fiction short stories I picked up one time. I've read most of the stories in the book, but have been saving some, just savoring the book.

I finished up Of Mice and Men by John Steinback not to long ago. Then I just finally started reading Crispen by Avi. I am also reading one of the Dungeon and Dragon seires books. Although I am not a fan of those kind of books, I read it just for something to skim through. But yeah I finished 1 of those, I can't remember correctly which one.

Next for something I would very much like to read is one of J.R.R Token books that I have not read yet. So I far I have read The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of ther Rings, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Lord of ther Rings: Return of the King. I just read one that I think was called Riverdom or Riverdam. Something titled like that.

But yeah, I would love to read any other J.R.R Tolken books, he is one of my favorite authors. His books just make me want to read on and on. I am quite fond of him. The action seems to keep me from not getting distracted. Does anyone have any suggestions of other good books by him? I can't really go to the Library until I finish the books and movies that I just checked out. So yeah... thank you.

I'm currently into this really good series: The series of unfortunate events. it's an exelent series,
10 books at least
The auther is Lemony Snicket,
http://www.lemonysnicket.com is the officail site i think,
if not contast me.

I'm about halfway into Michael Criton's Timeline; really awesome book so far. I can't wait for the movie next week. Oh, and I guess you could also count The Western Heritage but that's my European History AP book. ^^;

To Gyp: you're rackin' up late fees

Right, who got you hooked on Lawhead's books in the first place?

Late fees ... this coming from you ...

Yeah, I know. Quite the hypocritical statement. The local library would have had me arrested if I kept out one of their tapes for 9 months. You know, I'm begging my parents to do some searching to try to find "Grail" by that week after Turkey day...*wink wink*unfortunately, none of the bookstores here feel like carrying it in great quantities.

I have to read The Once and Future King by T.H. White for school, but just for leisure, I'm reading book 2 of Broken Sky , and I've recently finished A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (awesome book!)

Currently, I'm reading Mossflower by Brian Jacques.

I started reading The Iron Lance by Stephen F. Lawhead a couple months ago and never finished it. I need to get back on that again.

I just finished "Doctor Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe. Right now I am reading "How Children Fail," by John Holt, with about 90 pages to go. After that, I will read "Hamlet," and "Don Quixote," although those are for school.

I read a lot, but not as much during school.

Well I just recently finished The one kingdom the first book in the
The swans' war series and surprisingly good to I am reading The Fires Of Heaven book 5 of the Wheel of time series. I have been reading it for several months though I just cant seem to find time to finish it lol

@ Gypsy: Hey cool I didn’t know you were reading Lawhead's stuff the pendragon series is really good doesn’t I like how he gives a story for all of the main characters Merlin is really good! Its definitely a very good Arthurian series especially since its from a Christian. Although he does get into some more mature themes later witch is kind of weird coming from a Christian. It reminds me of some of Frank Peretti’s work. Oh just so you know the last book in the series just came out like a year ago its called Avalon and its oddly different from the rest of the series I personally would consider it a prologue.

I love Lawhead too! Seriously though, I've always been fascinated by Arthurian lore (as my bookshelf will attest; I have 20+ books, novels and reference books for that time period and the legends surrounding it) and it was a perfect match for me: Christian literature AND Arthur. Awesome. Kinda like the Mark of the Lion Series to me, which covers another fascinating time, Rome's Empire.

Oo, I just finished that too. Well, actually I finished Frankenstein back in September or so, but we're still dissecting it (pun intended) in English until semester's end.

Frankenstein's good, although I read literature stuff for fun, not school. Especially since I'm mostly doing some review work now. The revision work that I'm doing now is from several of my textbooks: exciting stuff like "Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation", and "Probablility and Random Processes with Applications to Signal Processing".

Plus some non-review academic stuff like some journal articles that I've been looking at. Some of its cool, I recently came across some very interesting journals that I haven't seen before.

Can't say I've read any Lawhead though.

I'm reading "Dune" for like the 4th time! This is close to my favorite book, but I hated the old movie!

well going to read very soon:

• chobits 8 ( yep)
• shut up and sing (laura ingraham)
• loser goes first (author not sure but he's a loser haha)

Samurai Deeper Kyo manga
Love Hina

I'm reading this book called Webster's NewWorld "C o m p a c t" School and Office Dictionary

It started off really slow, but I'm sure it will pick up when it reaches the climax!

I'm sure it was better than the Pacific Bell Yellow Pages. Not a laugh in the book, except for the section on customer service.

i finished Shogun by James Clavell few days ago. well, NOW i read tutorials on PHP on the internet. currently making a website with knowledge i gathered in few hours...

Hmm... How many books am I reading now....
* Build a better life by stealing office supplies - Scott Adams
* Quicksilver - Niel Stephenson
* Inu Yasha manga 1
* Dragon Bone Chair - Tad Williams
* The Acadamy - Jonathan Schiefer
* Latest installment of the 'bob' series. - Jonathan Schiefer
* Sendmail Bible - Some Boring Dude.
* "The history of Glue." ( Great book. I can't put it down!) - Ima Joe Kher
* One of the star wars books. All I remember is Lady Vader. As you can guess, I haven't gotten back to that one lately... - Timothy Zahn.
* The Riven Codex - David Eddings

I finished the last book, and now I am reading "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations," by David S. Landes. It is a very intersting book about why some nations are rich, and some are poor.

Starting "Pascali's Island" by Barry Unsworth

LOTR-The return of the king